Author: Rimmer, Mark

Source: Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 15, Number 3, 1 May 2012 , pp. 329-350(22)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

In the UK, recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in youth participation activities that seek to involve children and young people in various forms of decision-making. One such form of youth participation to benefit from increased government support since the late 1990s concerns community arts activities, especially those targeting young people considered to be `at risk'. While there exists a developing international literature exploring youth participation in community arts activities, to date relatively little attention has been paid to issues surrounding young people's decision-making within participatory arts projects. Through an exploration of three community music projects based in the North of England, this article considers the nature of young people's participation in project-related decision-making before proposing the need for greater attention to this aspect of community music activity, especially in the case of projects which seek to engage with `at risk' youth.

Keywords: exclusion; leisure; music; identity; youth culture

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2011.643232

Affiliations: 1: School of Film and Television Studies,University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Publication date: 2012-05-01

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